Bill > S782

This bill, known as the Melinda Stewart Stabilization Act, aims to defend, preserve, and promote housing stability and diversity in the City of Boston. The key provisions of the bill include: 1. Definitions of important terms such as "Foreclosing Owner," "Housing Accommodation," "Tenant," and "Tenants' Rights Organization." 2. Applicability of the act to most rental units and housing accommodations in Boston, with some exceptions such as units in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and certain transitional housing. 3. Requirement for landlords or foreclosing owners to provide tenants or former homeowners with a "City Rights Notice" and a "City Termination Notice" when serving a notice to quit or notice of lease nonrenewal or expiration. 4. Establishment of "just cause" requirements for foreclosing owners to recover possession of a housing accommodation, such as the owner seeking to use the unit for their own occupancy or the tenant refusing to pay a reasonable rent. 5. Remedies for tenants or former homeowners, including dismissal of an action for failure to provide the required notices. 6. Confidentiality provisions for the information contained in the required notices. 7. Non-waivability of the act's provisions, with any attempt to waive or limit a tenant's or former homeowner's rights under the act being unenforceable. 8. Severability of the act's provisions, such that the invalidity or conflict of one provision does not affect the rest of the act.

Housing and Urban Affairs

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S782